"GZG: Late January Releases in 15mm" Topic

jet bikes are simply superb. new infantry guys appear to have george forman grills for heads. big guy too big and looks like a 25.

All in all a great collection and addition to the 15mm line, well done.

ps: love the spare head idea, it's brill. the bar is too small though and looks like it can barely fit the bartender and two or three patrons!

Those jet bikes are so cool… man… harder and harder to resist the 15mm siren call.

Those crates and the bar look like their resin… does that mean the resin issues are solved and the old sculpts will be back in play?

The bar doesn't look like it's meant to seat patrons inside, more like a hot dog stand where they sit on the nearby crates to sip cocktails.

as he actually says in the news item, the bar is pre-production, so the material it is made out of is probably the sculpting material.

Answering several points in one post….

The Bar is 50mm by 70mm, which (assuming 1/100) scales out at 5 x 7 metres, or around 16 x 23 feet for those of you who don't use metric…. I've been in plenty of pubs where the main bar was much smaller than that! The concept is that it's a frontier settlement building made from a couple of shipping containers welded together with doors fitted.
Both the bar and the cargo pods are ALL METAL – the building is assembled from flat panels like our earlier PBM releases, while the pods are hollowed-out single piece castings. The ones in the pic are sprayed with grey primer.
There are three stages to making any piece – original master sculpt, pre-production castings from the master mould and finally castings for sale from the production moulds. The sample shown is assembled from the middle stage, metal parts from the master mould.

Jon (GZG)

good stuff! Does GZG take PayPal?

"good stuff! Does GZG take PayPal?"

Yup, we certainly do!

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Looking good Jon ! :) Great work like always, I think that the new line of UNSC troopers will be a hit, and the scenery accessories are always welcome additions.

Awesome stuff, particularly the bikes. Do the 6mm skimmers (NAC12) look like these writ small?

Doug

The new infantry are great. Very 'real' poses. Naturalistic and believable

I too, love the new poses for the infantry (much better than the more static, standard fare), and the bikes are a welcome addition to the NI range. All of the other nationalities are no doubt quite envious.

It's easier to just give Jon your bank account number, and to set up the automatic monthly payments in exchange for a set quantity of new miniatures to be provided on a monthly basis…..

;-)

When are we going to see the NI Missile and HAMR guys alluded to on Dropship Horizon a couple of weeks back?

So who has a how-to on doing 15mm head conversions? I don't even want to do 28mm ones.

Jon, you old faker (I think I've spelt that right…) that guy in the heavy suit: that's a 28mm figure isn't it! :-)

John T

PS – the colony bar look excellent!

"So who has a how-to on doing 15mm head conversions? I don't even want to do 28mm ones."

They're really easy in 15mm – you need a couple of tools: a pin chuck with a suitable drill bit (about 1mm) – you can use a dremel if you have one, but a hand chuck is more controllable and safer – and a good pair of sharp flush-cutting snips. Take your figure, angle the snips slightly downward from the back of the neck to the jawline and cleanly snip his head off (!). Now drill a small hole a few mm down into the neck, a little towards the rear where the spine would be. Snip the replacement head off its sprue with about 2-3mm of pin left on it, test-fit it "dry" into the hole then when you're happy, fix it with a drop of superglue. If you find it doesn't sit quite right, you can trim the neck area a little with a needle file, but you shouldn't need to do much.

Jon (GZG)

Excellent write up on head swaps Jon. The only thing I'd add is it's sometimes helpful to use an X-acto blade or triangular file to create the tiniest notch as a starting point for your drill bit.

I'd also advise against the dremel. Not really safe for this kind of job and frankly it doesn't save that much time.

I've found with some practice I can do about 12 head swaps in an hour. And it's loads of fun!

Damn Jon must be busy I ordered on Wednesday and he hasn't even taken the money yet…usually they've already arrived as soon as I finish typing in the bank details……'sigh'

GZG 15mm figures are a good source of heads for converting 1/72 plastics (since you usually get two figures with the same pose) for those that are interested……so I ordered the heads as soon as they became available, to continue my 20mm post apoc project.

edit: Order arrived today…..I must have mixed up Jon's payment with a different one that's due.

Anyway, wait a moment while I do my happy dance.